Nicotine modulates reorienting of visuospatial attention and neural activity in human parietal cortex

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 810-820

  Thiel, Christiane M ^a,b   Zilles, Karl ^a,b,c   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Attention; Functional; Magnetic resonance imaging; Nicotine; Parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINE GUM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 15444380707     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300633     Document Type: Article

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